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Originally Posted by kermitology
What is the point of actual ownership of 95% of music these days? There are maybe a handful of albums that I'd actually care to really own.
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I owned music at one point. 500-600 CDs probably. Where did those end up? I don't even really know. Every time I moved less came with me. I think I might have 15-20 left somewhere in the garage. A lot of good that ownership did me. I think I burned about 50 of them before getting bored with that idea.
I wonder if the Spotify model will eventually completely take over. Cloud based subscriptions (and non subscription models) that you can download or stream as needed seems to be the way of the future. Is anyone really going to be managing non-centralized libraries of mp3s in a couple years? Seems old fashioned already.
Oh and to the original post, I think that Apple Match, Google Music and Amazon all do pretty much what he says. If you have the mp3s or the cd, you can match them and have all your songs in the cloud for streaming, downloading whatever, if you prefer an ownership model.
Seems that music is moving towards a pretty obvious end game with these cloud based services. Video is the one I'm curious to see how it plays out.